Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-05-18
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

INDIcrMENrs returned last fall in the
United States Court at Indianapolis against
seven prominent Republ cans OF that city
for election frauds, have been quashed by
Judge Gresham, upon the ground that the
oGenscs charged were not in violation of
the federal law.
PAsco has Withdrawn from the Florida
Senatorial race.
THE new Treasurer has been officially
notified and the money and securities in
the treasury will be counted.
GEN. HENDERSON,, Chairman of tho last
Republican National Convention, is credit.
ed with saying that il Mr.. Blaine is the
candidate Of The party in 1888 he cannot BE-
elected.
MR. FREDERICK LAYTON, o public
spirited citizen Of Milwaukee, who il now
erecting an art gallery to be given to the
city, has made will leaving 100000 for
its maintenance.
The Amalgamated Iron and Steel Asso-
citation, at its meeting next month in Chi
cago, will adopt new scale, equivalent to
an advance in wages all round OF about 10
per cent.
A STAY Of proceedings has been granted
in the Grottkau case at Milwaukee until
The next term of the Supreme Court.
ST. Louis people who own several mill
lions of stock in tie G ranite Mountain
Mining Company of Montana are resisting
the tax assessed thereon Ly the State of
Missouri, on the ground that the property
represented by the stock is already taxed in
Montana. Several Of them announce their
determination to remove from Missouri
rather than pay taxes second time upon
this property.
Col. BRADroRD HANCOCK, the we'll
known live stock commission man Of the
firm Of keenan, & Hancock, Of Chicago,
il dead.
ARTHUR P. SEYMOUR, Of Chicago, is
IN Bs;I
GEo. E. REED, for two years city treas
urer Of Bismarck, d. T., is missing. 1t
is believed he has gone to Canada. His
accounts are said TO be $1,000 short.
RAYMOND BuTsEN, overseer Of the
Woodland plantat on, Plaquemine parish,
forty miles below New Orleans, was shot
through both legs by an insane man
named Ed. Williams. The latter was
finally shot and killed by the sheriff.
The clipper ships Seminole and Charm
or ore sailing in l7,C0O mile race, the
course being from New York to San Fran
cisco.
WILLIAM O'BRrEN, editor Of the United
Ireland, who il now in Canada, has been
elected without opposition 10 the commons
for the northwestern division Of Cork.
INTERSTATE COMMISSIONERS EcHooN-
MAKER denounces - ''inexcusably erron-
eous" the statement that any discrimina-
ton has been made by the commission in
favor Of the southern railroads. or that
relief has been refused to northern roads.
The boycotting Of Teemer, agent Of the
estates Of Lord Canricarde, in County
Galway, has commenced. Several tr.des-
men have refused to supply him with
goods.
GEN. BoULANaER's plan for experiment
tai meditation of tho French army next
October is distrusted 1t Berlin. II France
mobiliEes Germany will mobilize.
PREslDENT CLEVELAND made his dsst
visit 70 Mount Vernon few days ago
WILLIAM II. SANFORD, 6r.. shot and in
stanty killed his son Hamlet, aged 16
years, near Warrington. Ind, recently.
They were spending the night In house
ON Xr. Sanford's farm near that city, and
tho boy, in somnambulistic spell, got up
and went ont in the yard. The father
mistook him for burglar.